PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 288, 4 December 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Hon- 0. Samuel and Mrs. Samuet' returned io New Plymouth by the Rarawa yesterdav.

iMi?s Pulling, principal of the Diocesan Girls' High School, returned to Auckland from Sydney by the Maheno yesterday.

Mr. and Mrs. 8. Hutton and Mr. M. Sykes (Victoria) arrived from Sydney yesterday for a tour of New Zealand. Thpy are staying at the Grand Hotel. Dr. Bolton, senior medical officer to the Tongan Government, was a passenger from Nukualofa by the Tofua yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. John Burns, of Auckland, returned by the Maheno yesterday from a visit to Great Britain and the Continent. The Hon. A. T. Ngata arrived in Auckland yesterday by the Tarawera from Gisborne. ana left this morning by the express for Rotorua. Mr and Mrs Ralph Gosset leave for .Sydney T>y the Maheno to-night en routa for the Solomons, where Mr Gosset goes to fill an appointment as plantation manager and surveyor. Captain R. Crawford, late of the Union S.S. Manapouri, accompanied by Mrs. Crawford, arrived yesterday from Syd- " ney by the Tofua. He takes command of the Tofua at Auckland this week.

Passengers by the Tofua from ths Islands and Sydney yesterday included Captain Allen, managing director of the Samoan Shipping and Trading Co.; Mr. Jas. Ansenne, of the firm of Brown and Ansenne. Tonga; Mr- and Mrs. F. Martin (Fiji), and Mr. H. T. Kitt (England). After the municipal reception to Admiral King-Hall at Wellington on Friday, city councillors remained for a few, minutes in the Mayor's room and tendered to Mr. Wilford their hearty wishes for his complete restoration to health. In acknowledging the Councillors' remarks. Mr. Wilford said that it was only a matter of time before he would be well* again. He wanted a complete rest, and proposed to take it after the next Council meeting. Mr. E. D. Halstead. well-known as a veterinary surgeon, died yesterday at his residence, Graham-street, aged 63 years. Mr. Halstead came to New Zealand about fifty years ago, and for many years was well known to farmers throughout the Auckland province* Some sev< n years afro he contracted anthrax while engaged in his profession, and suffered from the after effects up to the time of his death. Mr. Halstead leaves a widow and grown-up family of two sons and five daughters.